The Galactic Mapping Project & Historical Archive of Exploration

[Eisen]

While traversing the Formidine Rift I found a cluster of unscoopable stars today. The "Very Welcome Scheau Hypue - Badlands". Normally such Clusters are to be avoided as they pose a high risk of getting stuck with an empty fuel-tank. But this one is quite welcome to the desperate explorer, who has been trying to traverse this otherwise low on stars and even lower on plot-able routes part of space.
After hours it finally made it possible for me to find a route to the Outer-Arm.

Name: The very welcome Scheau-Hypue-Badlands
Location: Formidine Rift, in the middle between the Heart and Soul-Nebulae and the New-Outer-Arm
Game-Map-Search ref.: Scheau Hypue HC-J b29-0 (The Entry system corewards)
Description: This small area of non-scoopable Stars provides a very welcome traverse-point for the desperate explorer, who thinks to be stuck in the vast Formidine Rift. Just scoop up what you can, CMDR, before you enter.

Screenshots below:

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A safe passage is possible by taking the following jump-references: Scheau Hypue HC-J b29-0 (entry), Scheau Hypue ZM-Q d6-1, Scheau Hypue PD-Q b25-0

, Scheau Hypue LX-R b24-0, Scheau Hypue GR-T b23-0, Scheau Hypue UJ-O b26-0, Scheau Hypue CL-V b22-0 (exit)

 

[CMDR AKIRA MASAKARI]

While traversing the Formidine Rift I found a cluster of unscoopable stars today. The "Very Welcome Scheau Hypue - Badlands". Normally such Clusters are to be avoided as they pose a high risk of getting stuck with an empty fuel-tank. But this one is quite welcome to the desperate explorer, who has been trying to traverse this otherwise low on stars and even lower on plot-able routes part of space.
After hours it finally made it possible for me to find a route to the Outer-Arm.

Name: The very welcome Scheau-Hypue-Badlands
Location: Formidine Rift, in the middle between the Heart and Soul-Nebulae and the New-Outer-Arm
Game-Map-Search ref.: Scheau Hypue HC-J b29-0 (The Entry system corewards)
Description: This small area of non-scoopable Stars provides a very welcome traverse-point for the desperate explorer, who thinks to be stuck in the vast Formidine Rift. Just scoop up what you can, CMDR, before you enter.

Screenshots below:

View attachment 66830View attachment 66831View attachment 66832

A safe passage is possible by taking the following jump-references: Scheau Hypue HC-J b29-0 (entry), Scheau Hypue ZM-Q d6-1, Scheau Hypue PD-Q b25-0

, Scheau Hypue LX-R b24-0, Scheau Hypue GR-T b23-0, Scheau Hypue UJ-O b26-0, Scheau Hypue CL-V b22-0 (exit)

There's another one in the carina-scutum gap, amd i used it to to traverse. Whereas usually avoided, few explorers are atartimg to use those to traverse interarm gaps.
Interesting, so Erimus, still taking a brake or can we post? I'm holding few POIs charged ready to restart thread harrasment. (Main goal in the game right now)

 

[Eisen]

There's another one in the carina-scutum gap, amd i used it to to traverse. Whereas usually avoided, few explorers are atartimg to use those to traverse interarm gaps.
Interesting, so Erimus, still taking a brake or can we post? I'm holding few POIs charged ready to restart thread harrasment. (Main goal in the game right now)

If I understood him correctly, we can post unique POI here (if it is not 1.4 stuff), but he will not be able to take care of the data for some time. Which is o.k. for me.

 

[Erimus Kamzel]

If I understood him correctly, we can post unique POI here (if it is not 1.4 stuff), but he will not be able to take care of the data for some time. Which is o.k. for me.

Yeah just taking a short break from updating them. Hopefully find some time next week to add the lastest POIs.

Re: The Very Welcome Scheau Hypue Badlands ... may have to shorten that to something like 'The Welcome Badlands' as really long labels cover too much of the map (its best to keep them shorter if possible )

 

[CMDR AKIRA MASAKARI]

Hi I would like to submit a survey of the first part of the Silentium Map submitting a region and 2 POIs. The region is a Badland in the gap between the Sctum Centaurus and the Carina Sagittarius arms. The 2 POIs are systems used as a start - arrive points in a route that crosses the badlands. But they are not beacon system, they are very interesting so this route is touristic.

CENTAURI BADLANDS: 4th quadrant, Silentium (Navigational Hazard: Very High)
Everybody knows that almost everywhere in the galaxy there's a layer of unscoopable star at -30/-170 Y. But since these layers of unscoopables keep their density even in the lowest density areas, they become prominent. The gap between the Scutum Centaurus arm and the Carina Sagittarius one in the lower Silentium Map is one of the lowest density area in the game, and this makes your routes very convoluted. Now there's a slim layer JUST ABOVE the badlands where scoopable frequency is good, and star density too. This means that, keeping an extra eye on your fuel tank, you can actually use this badlands to traverse this gap faster. Here you can traverse with almost any jump range, but if you don't keep an eye on your fuel you could make the longest ratcall ever made...

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You can traverse where you want using the method described, i submit to POIs to add some sightseeing of weird stuff. Everybody that's been in the rim on the other side of the galaxy knows that ELW are super rare here, while ammonia is EVERYWHERE.
Look what I've found:

POI: Centauri Shores. PRIA CHREA IW-N D6-19, 4T quadrant, Silentium, 51632.89 Ly from Sol.
POI Type: Scientific, Touristic, Historic, Nav Beacon.
This sytem has an Ringed ELW, Few Ice Balls, Few Giants... But it's a disguise, their sound betrayed them. One of the big Icy Balls was YET ANOTHER Ammonia World, disguised by a thick white atmosphere, and very big. On this side of the galaxy they don't let you drift alone. A system that can sustain both major life forms. But there's more. One of the gas giant is a Water Giant.
Now I have this project about planet sounds, Water Giants are rare, I didn't had the chance to hear one from a long time and... it sounded different, and had a different holo icon. This made me understand that our instruments change the way they percive reality (ehm, dev tweak stuff). So, becouse of this planet, I rewrote my guide from scratch, re-recording every object and reanalizing it.
From here, you can start to traverse the Centauri Badlands.

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POI: Silentium Shores. HYPHIELIE QH-K C22-0, 4th quadrant, Silentium, 58876.39 Ly from Sol
POI type: Scientific, Touristic, Nav Beacon.
If you want to just head north from Centauri Shores, you can end you route with this system. There's an ELW, a terraformable HMC, two Water Worlds, few Ice Balls, and YET ANOTHER Ammonia world that binary-lurks an Ice Ball, without even caring to disguise anymore. Now, in the last 8000 Ly I've found 13 Ammonia World, and only 2 ELW, that both have an Ammonia World in their system? Call me chilled. Note that, expecially in this area, this system is worth some credits, definitly a good stop if you are ascending Silentium.

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[Erimus Kamzel]

Here are the latest additions


M11 The Norma Expanse

• Aquitania

M12 The Galactic Core Regions

• The Inner Rim Nebula
• The Smasiae Red Giant Binary Pair
• 'Trinus' Blue

M13 The Outer Arm Vacuus

• Terra Madre
• The Crab Pulsar

M18 Silentium

• Centauri Shores
• Silentium Shores
• The Silentium Centauri Badlands

M22 The Formidine Rift

• The 'Welcome' Scheau-Hypue Badlands

 

[CMDR AKIRA MASAKARI]

Can't rep you more.
This thread is really a push, a reson to go for many of us.
And some of the namings have become regular exploration language.
Like the Formidine Rift, The Abyss, The Beagle Point, just to name few.
Sp even if sometimes you get discouraged by the no-love for exploration feeling, keep going!

 

[Erimus Kamzel]

Can't rep you more.
This thread is really a push, a reson to go for many of us.
And some of the namings have become regular exploration language.
Like the Formidine Rift, The Abyss, The Beagle Point, just to name few.
Sp even if sometimes you get discouraged by the no-love for exploration feeling, keep going!

I think its something that will become appreciated more with time, in a few years time new players to the game will hopefully look at these maps we've put together and see what the earlier explorers did and see how the 'story of exploration' unfolded. This is something I saw happen a lot in other games I played years ago (like Ultima Online), the players often created the most interesting content/history that newer players always drew inspiration from.


I'm not sure what plans FD have for the galaxy, but I was hoping by now they would have added some of their own official labels to the game map. Apart from out local region, they seem to have just left the galaxy as a blank canvass. :/

 

[CMDR AKIRA MASAKARI]

I'm crossing Solitude. Since now i made a 4k Ly route, halfway to the Permadesco Zoi system.
The only life forms I encountered live in gas giants. 4000 Ly, not a single water world, ammonia world or earth like.
A deep survey of the Galactic Map revealed that all stars are in Main Sequence, vast majority of them beeing cold M class. There's nothing out of main sequence (supergiants, NS, BH, White Dwarf, Wolf Rayet, C, S, MS, CN).
A very small number of TT stars have been detected in rare B class main star systems.
There's no nebulae, no star cluster, very low density of dust and stellar winds. Star density is very low, but still navigable with the route plotter (31,07 jump range)
Akira Masakari out.

 

[Corbin Moran]

I think its something that will become appreciated more with time, in a few years time new players to the game will hopefully look at these maps we've put together and see what the earlier explorers did and see how the 'story of exploration' unfolded. This is something I saw happen a lot in other games I played years ago (like Ultima Online), the players often created the most interesting content/history that newer players always drew inspiration from.


I'm not sure what plans FD have for the galaxy, but I was hoping by now they would have added some of their own official labels to the game map. Apart from out local region, they seem to have just left the galaxy as a blank canvass. :/

Back in the days when I played Saga of Ryzom some in a guild made an awesome interactive map of the game world complete with different layers you could toggle to show eg. different resource sites, hazardous areas and the like. Building something like that for the galactic mapping project would be ideal. There are so many poi´s in the lists now that having different map layers, overview maps that you could click and zoom or a searchable database would be great tools.

It is also something I have considered with the maps I am making for the First Great Expedition - when I edit the raw map files in my image edit program I can easily turn layers on and off - and I would love to give this functionality to other users of the maps - but I lack the skill to make it into a web page...

 

[CMDR AKIRA MASAKARI]

Hey Erimus, another Permadesco system close to the one you found in solitude.
POI: PERMADESCO FRECKIE FRECKIE FG-Y D10, 4Th Quadrant, The Far Galactic Rim, Solitude, 63525.23 Ly from Sol.
This system has three Water Worlds. An odditty itself, and even more if you think it's situated a mere 2991,74 Ly from PERMADESCO ZOI, another system that has three Water Worlds. Both A main star system. Permadesco Freckie has a Terraformable HMC, and the closest Water World to the sun is terraformable too. All planets have atmospheres with heavy carbon dioxide presence.

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[Corbin Moran]

On behalf of the First Great Expedition mission to explore the Sagittarius-Carina Arm, I would like to submit the following results from our mission to this date.

A total of 79 POIs have been logged in our mission POI registry. But it should be noted that this includes a few POIs that turned out to be allready logged here, and also that our guidelines for POIs are a little more lax that those found here.

You can follow our mission or explore our maps here.

The following are the POIs that I think should live up to the criteria here as well.
Contributed by CMDRs Argon, Corbin Moran, Dobbo, Draco, Ecthelion, Finwen, Hellhawk, Leifur Eiriksson, Marlon Blake, Matt Kowalsky, Mindwipe, Tyy'sun Eson and Vonner.

Major POI´s

Jewel box
Game map search ref. : CX Crucis
POI Type: Star cluster
An open cluster in the constellation Crux, originally discovered by Nicolas Louis de Lacaille during 1751–1752. This famous cluster was later named the Jewel Box by Sir John Herschel when he described its telescopic appearance as "a casket of variously coloured precious stones."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewel_Box_(star_cluster)
http://robert.astronet.se/Elite/Bilder/Jewel Box Sector DL-Y d20 (20150904-235216).png

Running Chicken Cluster
Game map search ref. :IC 2944, HG 10004
POI Type: Cluster of bright stars
Running Chicken Nebula. The nebula cloud is missing in the game, but the 100+ bright stars of the cluster is present.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IC_2944

Statue of Liberty Nebula
Game map search ref. : Statue of Liberty
POI Type: Visual
NGC 3576 is a minor nebula in the Sagittarius arm of the galaxy a few thousand light-years away from the Eta Carinae nebula. A popular nickname is "The Statue of Liberty Nebula" because of the distinctive shape in the middle of the nebula.

Trumpler 16 Cluster
Game map search ref: Trumpler 16
POI Type: Star Cluster
A cluster close to the Eta Carina Nebula containing many B and O-stars and a few Black Holes.
http://i.imgur.com/dMPcpS0.jpg

Minor POI´s
Cycladia
Game map search ref : Blu Thua GI-B b55-2
POI Type: Earth-like world, visual
Beautiful ringed planet to visit from orbit (but you really don´t want to go planetside here... trust me). The rings however, are orbiting so fast it is visible to the naked eye.
http://i.imgur.com/itlHkJq.jpg
(The rings are seen between 1:00 and 1:10 in this video) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHQxpLOUwq0

Dancing Djinn
Game map search ref. : Droju G0-C c15-5 B
POI Type: Visual
A system containing a binary pair in close embrace. At a distance of only 5 ls they complete their orbit in just 8 hours. The larger of the pair is four times as heavy (0.82 solar masses) as the smaller (0.2 solar masses)
http://i.imgur.com/SckamS3.jpg
(A close encounter with the pair can be seen here between 7:33 and 7:53) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLcly139xfk

Delos
Game map search ref. : Droju UA-D D13-9 5
POI Type: Visual
The system contains a rather cold Earth-like world with silicate geysers, a water world with life and a high-metal terraform candidate. The remaining stellar bodies are five high-metal planets. The system is located in the constellation Sagittarius (the archer) and have a spectacular view of the nearby Thor's Eye cluster forming an arrow pointing at the Lagoon Nebula. It is named after the birthplace of the mythological archers Apollo and Artemis.
http://i.imgur.com/hCgapxk.jpg

The Doppelgangers
Game map search ref. : Tr 24 Sector IW-V d2-15
POI Type: Earthlike worlds
A pair of earthlike planets.
http://s1375.photobucket.com/user/dobbo314/media/Tr 24 Sector IW-V d2-15 1_zpszrguotwb.jpg.html

Eta Carinae
Game map search ref. : Eta Carinae
POI Type: Scientific
Binary star system. The primary is a peculiar B-star similar to a luminous blue variable that initially had around 150 solar masses and has since lost at least 30. Because of its mass and the stage of its life, it is expected to explode as a supernova or hypernova in the astronomically near future. This is currently the only star known to produce ultraviolet laser emission.
The secondary star is hot and also highly luminous, of spectral class O, around 30 times as massive as the Sun.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eta_Carinae
http://i.imgur.com/VcaCztZ.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/TmLROhN.jpg

The Furnace
Game map search ref. : Bleia Dryoae KN-K d8-12
POI Type: Neutron Star
Neutron star with 4 close orbitting orange stars all within 750Ls from the primary star
http://i.imgur.com/lJDC331.png
http://i.imgur.com/xg0xhCs.png

Leda
Game map search ref. : Praea EUQ ks-J D9-14
POI Type: Dueling Earth-likes
Two Earth Likes orbiting one another:Terra-Castor and Terra-Pollux (planet 6 and 7) As well as a Water World: Tyndareus and various high metal content worlds including two terraformable. Cmdr Eson has expressed serious plans to one day colonize and develop this system after the expedition.
https://youtu.be/823UvIGKiR8

Little Ghost
Game map search ref. : Little Ghost
POI Type: Planetary Nebula
A planetary nebula in the constellation Ophiuchus. It was discovered by William Herschel. At the centre of the Little Ghost Nebula is a wolf-raynet star of 0.46 solar masses catalogued as HD 158269
http://firstgreatexpedition.org/FGEmj/index.php?title=Little_Ghost_Nebula

The Playground
Game map search ref. : 2MASS J10462133-5945117
POI Type: Visual
A system with a series of gas giants (and a brown dwarf), each a different colour. Makes for a pretty system map. Located in Eta Carina Nebula
http://i.imgur.com/LofgiqI.png
http://i.imgur.com/YDFNTmL.png

The Quartz Twins
Game map search ref. : Thaila YE-A G2 B+C
POI Type: Twin Herbig Ae/Be Stars
Two Herbig stars orbiting in close proximity.
http://i.imgur.com/3Znd0Mz.png
http://i.imgur.com/JhQv1cv.png

The Sapphire Dancers
Game map search reference: Smojo LM-W f1-1
POI Type: Twin Herbig Ae/Be Stars
A B star system with the 2 stars being Twin Herbigs.
http://imgur.com/99L2n38.png
https://youtu.be/Z_ndBErsstA

The Spiderweb
Game map search ref. : CPD-57 3520
POI Type: Navigational Hazard, Visual
The third star in this system is an M-class ringed star. The outer parts of the rings extends 48 ls from the star, is invisible from some angles and causes drop from supercruise - at potentially very high speeds. When backlit by the light of the main blue star the rings are barely visible as thin strands of web.
http://i.imgur.com/tI2gP8W.jpg

 

[Erimus Kamzel]

Cheers Illeris, some nice POIs there

I'll update the maps sometime this week.

 

[CMDR AKIRA MASAKARI]

On behalf of the First Great Expedition mission to explore the Sagittarius-Carina Arm, I would like to submit the following results from our mission to this date.

A total of 79 POIs have been logged in our mission POI registry. But it should be noted that this includes a few POIs that turned out to be allready logged here, and also that our guidelines for POIs are a little more lax that those found here.

You can follow our mission or explore our maps here.

The following are the POIs that I think should live up to the criteria here as well.
Contributed by CMDRs Argon, Corbin Moran, Dobbo, Draco, Ecthelion, Finwen, Hellhawk, Leifur Eiriksson, Marlon Blake, Matt Kowalsky, Mindwipe, Tyy'sun Eson and Vonner.

Major POI´s

Jewel box
Game map search ref. : CX Crucis
POI Type: Star cluster
An open cluster in the constellation Crux, originally discovered by Nicolas Louis de Lacaille during 1751–1752. This famous cluster was later named the Jewel Box by Sir John Herschel when he described its telescopic appearance as "a casket of variously coloured precious stones."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewel_Box_(star_cluster)
http://robert.astronet.se/Elite/Bilder/Jewel Box Sector DL-Y d20 (20150904-235216).png

Running Chicken Cluster
Game map search ref. :IC 2944, HG 10004
POI Type: Cluster of bright stars
Running Chicken Nebula. The nebula cloud is missing in the game, but the 100+ bright stars of the cluster is present.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IC_2944

Statue of Liberty Nebula
Game map search ref. : Statue of Liberty
POI Type: Visual
NGC 3576 is a minor nebula in the Sagittarius arm of the galaxy a few thousand light-years away from the Eta Carinae nebula. A popular nickname is "The Statue of Liberty Nebula" because of the distinctive shape in the middle of the nebula.

Trumpler 16 Cluster
Game map search ref: Trumpler 16
POI Type: Star Cluster
A cluster close to the Eta Carina Nebula containing many B and O-stars and a few Black Holes.
http://i.imgur.com/dMPcpS0.jpg

Minor POI´s
Cycladia
Game map search ref : Blu Thua GI-B b55-2
POI Type: Earth-like world, visual
Beautiful ringed planet to visit from orbit (but you really don´t want to go planetside here... trust me). The rings however, are orbiting so fast it is visible to the naked eye.
http://i.imgur.com/itlHkJq.jpg
(The rings are seen between 1:00 and 1:10 in this video) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHQxpLOUwq0

Dancing Djinn
Game map search ref. : Droju G0-C c15-5 B
POI Type: Visual
A system containing a binary pair in close embrace. At a distance of only 5 ls they complete their orbit in just 8 hours. The larger of the pair is four times as heavy (0.82 solar masses) as the smaller (0.2 solar masses)
http://i.imgur.com/SckamS3.jpg
(A close encounter with the pair can be seen here between 7:33 and 7:53) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLcly139xfk

Delos
Game map search ref. : Droju UA-D D13-9 5
POI Type: Visual
The system contains a rather cold Earth-like world with silicate geysers, a water world with life and a high-metal terraform candidate. The remaining stellar bodies are five high-metal planets. The system is located in the constellation Sagittarius (the archer) and have a spectacular view of the nearby Thor's Eye cluster forming an arrow pointing at the Lagoon Nebula. It is named after the birthplace of the mythological archers Apollo and Artemis.
http://i.imgur.com/hCgapxk.jpg

The Doppelgangers
Game map search ref. : Tr 24 Sector IW-V d2-15
POI Type: Earthlike worlds
A pair of earthlike planets.
http://s1375.photobucket.com/user/dobbo314/media/Tr 24 Sector IW-V d2-15 1_zpszrguotwb.jpg.html

Eta Carinae
Game map search ref. : Eta Carinae
POI Type: Scientific
Binary star system. The primary is a peculiar B-star similar to a luminous blue variable that initially had around 150 solar masses and has since lost at least 30. Because of its mass and the stage of its life, it is expected to explode as a supernova or hypernova in the astronomically near future. This is currently the only star known to produce ultraviolet laser emission.
The secondary star is hot and also highly luminous, of spectral class O, around 30 times as massive as the Sun.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eta_Carinae
http://i.imgur.com/VcaCztZ.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/TmLROhN.jpg

The Furnace
Game map search ref. : Bleia Dryoae KN-K d8-12
POI Type: Neutron Star
Neutron star with 4 close orbitting orange stars all within 750Ls from the primary star
http://i.imgur.com/lJDC331.png
http://i.imgur.com/xg0xhCs.png

Leda
Game map search ref. : Praea EUQ ks-J D9-14
POI Type: Dueling Earth-likes
Two Earth Likes orbiting one another:Terra-Castor and Terra-Pollux (planet 6 and 7) As well as a Water World: Tyndareus and various high metal content worlds including two terraformable. Cmdr Eson has expressed serious plans to one day colonize and develop this system after the expedition.
https://youtu.be/823UvIGKiR8

Little Ghost
Game map search ref. : Little Ghost
POI Type: Planetary Nebula
A planetary nebula in the constellation Ophiuchus. It was discovered by William Herschel. At the centre of the Little Ghost Nebula is a wolf-raynet star of 0.46 solar masses catalogued as HD 158269
http://firstgreatexpedition.org/FGEmj/index.php?title=Little_Ghost_Nebula

The Playground
Game map search ref. : 2MASS J10462133-5945117
POI Type: Visual
A system with a series of gas giants (and a brown dwarf), each a different colour. Makes for a pretty system map. Located in Eta Carina Nebula
http://i.imgur.com/LofgiqI.png
http://i.imgur.com/YDFNTmL.png

The Quartz Twins
Game map search ref. : Thaila YE-A G2 B+C
POI Type: Twin Herbig Ae/Be Stars
Two Herbig stars orbiting in close proximity.
http://i.imgur.com/3Znd0Mz.png
http://i.imgur.com/JhQv1cv.png

The Sapphire Dancers
Game map search reference: Smojo LM-W f1-1
POI Type: Twin Herbig Ae/Be Stars
A B star system with the 2 stars being Twin Herbigs.
http://imgur.com/99L2n38.png
https://youtu.be/Z_ndBErsstA

The Spiderweb
Game map search ref. : CPD-57 3520
POI Type: Navigational Hazard, Visual
The third star in this system is an M-class ringed star. The outer parts of the rings extends 48 ls from the star, is invisible from some angles and causes drop from supercruise - at potentially very high speeds. When backlit by the light of the main blue star the rings are barely visible as thin strands of web.
http://i.imgur.com/tI2gP8W.jpg

Woot, what an expedition!!!! Repped.

 

[Whoamus]

Face in the Nebula

Not sure if anyone has noticed this on the back side of Nebula BLAA HYPAI AA-A H68. I first noticed this traveling in the Blae Hypue sector traveling back from Sagittarius A. I am heading south and I was west of that nebula. You only notice it if you happen to be traveling to scan a planet and are facing in the correct direction and orientation. At first it reminded me a little of the painting The Scream but the face reminded me of someone I could not place at first. I would like to submit this as a visual POI if you are inclined to accept it.

My first view.

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Traveled a couple hundred Ly to get a better look.

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Then since this is space, I realized who I thought it looked like. Kind of funny actually but it fits.

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And finally, I was starting back on my journey and ran across an earthlike. I caught this by accident since I was not paying attention after I found the earthlike. I was in a hurry and did not stay to take more screenshots but it would be odd to see this in the sky. Added location for any others wanting to visit too.

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[Sgopher81]

I'm kitting out an Asp for exploration with mining equipment.

Happy to contribute to this effort, is there a particular part of the galaxy you want mapped?

 

[Erimus Kamzel]

Not sure if anyone has noticed this on the back side of Nebula BLAA HYPAI AA-A H68. I first noticed this traveling in the Blae Hypue sector traveling back from Sagittarius A. I am heading south and I was west of that nebula. You only notice it if you happen to be traveling to scan a planet and are facing in the correct direction and orientation. At first it reminded me a little of the painting The Scream but the face reminded me of someone I could not place at first. I would like to submit this as a visual POI if you are inclined to accept it.

Nice find Whoamus. Its definitely got a distinct look about it from that angle. I'll add it during the next update. Do you want to leave it as the Blaa Hypai Nebula, or do you want to give it a nickname too?

I'm kitting out an Asp for exploration with mining equipment.

Happy to contribute to this effort, is there a particular part of the galaxy you want mapped?

Best thing to do is check out the current maps and see where there is little data. I think there are one or two expeditions now making their way through the 4th Quadrant, but the far reaches are still vastly unknown. I think only Akira Makasari has reported back from there. The upper 1st Quadrant and the Abyssal plane are also pretty much unknowns at this point, but they're very distant. Depends how far you want to go really

 

[Sgopher81]

Best thing to do is check out the current maps and see where there is little data. I think there are one or two expeditions now making their way through the 4th Quadrant, but the far reaches are still vastly unknown. I think only Akira Makasari has reported back from there. The upper 1st Quadrant and the Abyssal plane are also pretty much unknowns at this point, but they're very distant. Depends how far you want to go really

Very far and a long-term project is what I'm looking for! Abyssal Plane it is, probably start in the next few days.

 

[Whoamus]

Nice find Whoamus. Its definitely got a distinct look about it from that angle. I'll add it during the next update. Do you want to leave it as the Blaa Hypai Nebula, or do you want to give it a nickname too?

I think the nickname "The Screaming Nebula" would be okay. Anyone else may see a different face than the doctors. Even though I live in the US, I used to watch those old Dr. Who episodes on public television years back.

 

[Eisen]

Greetings Explorers!
I'm migrating my game to my newly arrived super-duper-high-end-overclocked-monster-gamers-pc today . Download of ED seems to be endless. Time to go through my logs of the last two weeks.
There was not much to find on my way through the outer arm towards Bovomit. Endless class M-stars and icy-worlds.
However there may be one system of interest:

"Opposites"
Game map search ref. : SMAIDOU ZE-A GO
POI Type: Tourist / Exploration Hazard medium
One of the very few systems in the far outer rim in which you face a black-hole upon exit from hyperspace. So make sure to throttle to zero before the jump-countdown has ended. Having reached this far out one may no longer be used to the dangers of these high-gravity bodies. Oddly this system is despite of it's black hole host to two freshly born T-Tauri-Stars. Life and death are closely together here. An opportunity to refuel is provided by a nearby A-type-sequence star.

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